Paisley Abercorn railway station

Paisley Abercorn
Paisley Abercorn
	The station site in 2007
General information
Location	Paisley, Renfrewshire; Scotland
Coordinates	55°51′07″N 4°25′08″W / 55.8519°N 4.4190°W
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Paisley and Renfrew Railway
Pre-grouping	Glasgow & South Western
Key dates
1 May 1866	Opened as Paisley G&SW
2 January 1880	Renamed Paisley Abercorn
5 June 1967	Closed

Paisley Abercorn railway station was a railway station in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. The station was built by the Glasgow and South Western railway when the former Scotch gauge Paisley and Renfrew Railway was converted to Standard Gauge and was joined to the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway at Arkleston Junction.

History

The station opened on 1 May 1866, it replaced the earlier terminal station at Paisley Hamilton Street.^[2]

The station closed permanently to regular passenger services on 5 June 1967, when passenger services were withdrawn from the branch line.^[2] Freight traffic ceased in 1981 and the track was lifted in 1986.

Both platforms remain, (albeit covered in vegetation) but all buildings have been removed.

The site of the former Paisley Abercorn railway station goods yard was used to build a DIY superstore operated by Tesco in the late 1970s - unlike most Tesco stores, for most of its life it was forbidden to sell food. In the 1980s the store was sold to become a DIY superstore - "Great Mills"; Great Mills has changed ownership and has since been renamed.

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Sandyford Halt Line and station closed		Glasgow and South Western Railway Paisley and Renfrew Railway		Cardonald Line closed, station open

Railways
BB G&SWR	Barrhead Branch	G&SWR
CR	Caledonian Railway
G&PJR	Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway	Joint CR / G&SWR
G&SWR	Glasgow and South Western Railway
GP&GR	Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway	Caledonian Railway
GPK&AR	Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway	G&SWR
P&BDR	Paisley and Barrhead District Railway	Caledonian Railway
P&RR	Paisley and Renfrew Railway	G&SWR
PCL	Paisley Canal Line	G&SWR

Footnotes

^ Quick, M. E. (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 331. OCLC 931112387.
^ ^a ^b Butt (1995). Page 180.